Keep clicking to see which hit movies you'd be surprised to find out were filmed in the Lone State State.

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'Rushmore' (1998)Houston native Wes Anderson filmed the story of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman, left) in Houston. Locations included a barber shop on 11th Street, Delmar Stadium, St. John's School and Lamar High School.

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'Dazed and Confused' (1993)Richard Linklater shot his classic film in Austin and Georgetown.

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'Friday Night Lights' (2004)The film based on H.G. Bissinger's book starred Billy Bob Thornton and Derek Luke and was shot, in part, in the Astrodome.

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'No Country for Old Men' (2007)Parts of the Coen brothers adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s book were filmed in Big Bend National Park and Marfa.

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'Cast Away' (2000)The final scene where Tom Hanks is standing at a literal crossroads in a rural town was filmed in Canadian, Texas near Amarillo.

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'The Alamo' (2004)The exterior scenes of the film were shot mostly on Reimers Ranch near Austin. Fun fact: Houston native Dennis Quaid played Sam Houston in the film.

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'Space Cowboys' (2000)Some scenes in the Clint Eastwood film were shot at the Johnson Space Center.

'Bernie' (2011)Jack Black was brilliant in Richard Linklater’s film about a Carthage mortician who kills a wealthy elderly widow. Filming took place in central Texas, including Austin, Lockhart, Georgetown, Smithville and Bastrop.

'Midnight Cowboy' (1969)Some scenes in the initially X-rated film were shot in Big Spring and Sweetwater.

'Silkwood' (1983)Meryl Streep, Cher and director Mike Nichols were all Oscar-nominated for their work on the story about whistle-blower Karen Silkwood. Filming took place in Dallas, Howe and Texas City.

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'Places in the Heart' (1984)Sally Field won an Oscar for her role in Robert Benton’s film, which was shot in Waxahachie.

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"I can't deny the fact you like me," Field said in her acceptance speech, "Right now, you like me."

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'Tender Mercies' (1983)Robert Duvall and Texas writer Horton Foote won Oscars for the film about a broken-down country singer. It was filmed in Waxahachie and Palmer.

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'There Will Be Blood' (2007)Paul Thomas Anderson chose to shoot some of his film about ambitious wildcatter Daniel Plainview in Marfa. Daniel Day-Lewis picked up his second Oscar for the role.

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'Johnny Be Good' (1988)Anthony Michael Hall’s first film in which he didn’t play the nerd was filmed in San Antonio and Georgetown.

'Sugarland Express' (1974)Ben Johnson starred in the film that was shot in Del Rio and Sugar Land.

Darrell Royal won three national championships with the Texas Longhorns.

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Production shot on UT's Intramural Field in Austin shows Coach Royal (Aaron Eckhart, 5th from left) addressing his 1968 team during a spring practice.

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Freddie Steinmark, University of Texas football star who lost his left leg to cancer, chats with Texas quarterback James Street on the sidelines before the start of the Notre Dame-Texas Cotton Bowl game in Dallas, Jan. 1, 1970. Steinmark left the hospital in Houston to attend the game. (AP Photo)

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Actor Finn Wittrock (right sprinter) as Freddie Steinmark in an early scene from the movie.

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AURORA ,CO--DECEMBER 30TH 2005--Gloria Steinmark at her home in Aurora Friday afternoon holds a game ball from the Cotton Bowl January 1st 1970, given to her son, Freddie Steinmark, a Texas football star who died of cancer in the 70's. THE DENVER POST/ ANDY CROSS

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FEB 23 1970, FEB 24 1970; Colorado sports hull of fame 5p; Champ Award Touched the Crowd of More than 1,000; Jack Christiansen, right, a member of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, presents the Champ Award given to Freddie Steinmark in a touching moment of Monday night's banquet. Steinmark's father, Fred, accepted the award for the former Wheat Ridge High School and University of Texas football player who lost a leg because of cancer last fall.;

Saint Mary's University football team travelling to game aboard passnger bus in the 1930s. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Saint Mary's University football team living in an unfinished qymnasium. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Members of Saint Mary's University football team listening to class lecture aboard bus en route to game in this 1939 photo from Life magazine. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Star halfback Henry Tutor playing for Saint Mary's University footbal team in exchange for his college education in the 1930s. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Oil promotor and athletics sponsor John Simms appealing over the radio for prospective players to form a football football team for St. Mary's University. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Oil promotor and athletics sponsor John Simms (L) calling on parents of Henry Tutor to recriut their son for St. Mary's University football team during a 1930s-era recruiting trip. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Circa 1940s - Southern Methodist University head football coach Matty Bell (R) trying to persuade high schooler Henry Stollenwerck to come to S.M.U. (Photo by Michael Rougier//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Trainer looking at shoulder of Univ. of Texas football player Peter Layden. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Vintage painting showing an aerial view of the Rice Institute Stadium as it looked in 1946. The field is marked for a football game. (Photo by Lake County Museum/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas football coach Dana Bible squatting in front of his players. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Dr. Franz Polgar (L) at the University of Texas, using group hypnosis on these male football players and convincing them that they are carrying a heavy load. (Photo by Michael Rougier//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas football player Jack Crain sitting with two female students. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Couple attending a Texas college football game, circa 1940s. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas students having a celebration on campus after a football game. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Football coach Dana Bible (L) of the Univ. of Texas talking to players on the sidelines. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Members of the Univ. of Texas football team warming up with exercises before a game. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Parents of a Univ. of Texas football player attending a game. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Married members of the Univ. of Texas football team posing with their wives, circa 1940s. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas football players Harold Jungmichel (L) and Donald Cohenour playing a game of rummy before a game. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas football coach Dana Bible (R) giving a demonstration of how a spinner works. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Football player Jack Freeman of the Univ. of Texas walking down sidewalk with wife and baby. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas football coach Dana Bible (L) talking to his team. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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View of mostly female fans in the bleachers at the homecoming football game at MacMurray College, Abilene, Texas, September 21, 1946. Many of the young women wear green & red face paint and green caps featuring the number 60 and handwritten slogans. (Photo by J. R. Eyerman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Players from the Penn State University Nittany Lions (in white) play the Southern Methodist University Mustangs during the 1948 Cotton Bowl at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Penn State tied SMU 13-13. (Photo by Cotton Bowl/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)

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Players from the Penn State University Nittany Lions (in white) play the Southern Methodist University Mustangs during the 1948 Cotton Bowl at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Penn State tied SMU 13-13. (Photo by Cotton Bowl/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)

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Players from the Penn State University Nittany Lions (in white) play the Southern Methodist University Mustangs during the 1948 Cotton Bowl at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Penn State tied SMU 13-13. (Photo by Cotton Bowl/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Dana Bible, coach of the University of Texas football team. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Crowd watching team from the Univ. of Texas playing a football game. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Quarterback passing the ball during the Paint Creek High School vs Benjamin High six-man football game. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Texas Sports Hall of Fame member and University of Texas football player Malcolm Kutner holding the ball. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1940s - Univ. of Texas football coach Dana Bible (L) giving instruction to a player. (Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950: University of Texas football game. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Player punting the ball during the Paint Creek High vs Benjamin High six-man football game. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Student Steve poster (foreground), who along with another student Jessalyn Gray were blocked from entering Texarkana College by group of White Supremacists, watching High School football practice. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Coach Dennis Goehring (R) talking with player Robert Garner (L) during a pre-season practice of the Texas A & M football team. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Texas A&M Football Coach Paul Bryant ('Bear Bryant') (1913 - 1983) prepares to send an undentified player (#36) into a game against Villanova at College Station, Texas, September 22, 1956. (Photo by Joe Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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TEXAS, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 1950: Pair of Texas University students kissing after a close football victory over Southern Methodist University, who had been the favored team. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Player Roger Hawthorne sitting with his team during a pre-season practice of the Texas A & M football team. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - A home near Texas A&M College which is ready, rent-free, for whoever takes the job of football coach at the college. (Photo by Thomas D. Mcavoy//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Members of the Texas A&M College Cadet Corp. signing the telegram asking football coach Jim Myers to be their coach. (Photo by Thomas D. Mcavoy//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Circa 1950: University of Texas football game. (Photo by Francis Miller/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Team celebrating victory after the Paint Creek High vs Benjamin High six-man football game. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Texas football fans watching as a young lady is preparing to punt a football through the goal post. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Torchlight parade led by cheerleaders in a convertible drawing some 4,000 students to a pep rally the night before Arkansas played Texas A&M. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Circa 1950s - Two young football players having a chat with two older during the Texas A&M vs Villanova football game. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Circa 1950s - Young ladies yelling from the stands at the Texas A&M vs Villanova football game. (Photo by Joseph Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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COLLEGE STATION, TX- CIRCA 1955-57: John David Crow #44 running back of the Texas A&M Aggies runs the ball up field at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. (Photo by Texas A&M/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)

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COLLEGE STATION, TX- CIRCA 1955-57: John David Crow #44 running back of the Texas A&M Aggies runs the ball up field at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. (Photo by Texas A&M/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)

AUG 3 1963; Oilers Veterans Ready to Face Broncos; Running back Billy Cannon (left), reputed to be faster this year at 207 pounds, and 14-year veteran quarterback George Blanda of the Houston Oilers plot strategy for the pre-season meeting Saturday night against the Denver University Stadium.; (Photo By The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Syracuse Univ. playing against Texas Univ. in the 1960 Cotton Bowl game. (Photo by Donald Uhrbrock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Syracuse Univ. playing against Texas Univ. in the 1960 Cotton Bowl game. (Photo by Donald Uhrbrock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Syracuse coach Floyd B. Schwartzwalder (L) rushing out to stop football player John Brown (C) in fight over racial insult from Texas player during the 1960 Cotton Bowl game. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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American football player Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, goes after a sack on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Eddie LeBaron as a Dallas blocker tries to keep him away, early 1960s. (Photo by Robert Riger/Getty Images)

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The Dallas Cowboys tackle an unidentified opponent, early 1960s. (Photo by Robert Riger/Getty Images)

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San Diego Chargers defensive tackle Ernie Ladd (77) gets to Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda (16), inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 1981, a split-second late during a 27-0 Chargers victory on December 1, 1963, at Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California. (Photo by Charles Aqua Viva/Getty Images)

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Eddie LeBaron #14 of the Dallas Cowboys rolls out on a fake punt executed by Sam Baker #38 against Bob Schmitz #67 and Johnny Sample #24 of the Pittsburgh Steelers during the game at Pitt Stadium on October 21, 1962 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Robert Riger/Getty Images)

Golden Globe nominee Aaron Eckhart is in Austin this week taking on the role of legendary football coach Darrell K. Royal as filming begins for the movie "My All American."

The film tells the heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of Longhorns player Freddie Steinmark and his relationship with the iconic coach during the team's 1969 run to the national championship.

Decades in the planning, the movie finally went into production after UT alumni, including oil and gas executive Bud Brigham, came up with the financing.

"It's incredibly gratifying to finally be in production in Austin," said Paul Schiff, the movie's producer, "It's been a labor of love, of work and sweat, and we're thrilled to be finally doing it."

The crew spent two days filming in and around the UT campus, bringing in vintage cars and a full 1960s wardrobe to take current students back in time to a year of great drama in Longhorn history.

Freddie Steinmark was an undersized player from Colorado that no one wanted to take a chance on until he joined Royal's Longhorns in 1967. (If that sounds like another underdog football story you might know, "My All American" is written and directed by "Rudy" screenwriter Angelo Pizzo.)

Steinmark quickly rose through the ranks and by 1969 was one of UT's stars.

After what was an historic win alongside the Longhorns' most successful coach, tragedy struck. Steinmark developed bone cancer and the same year he won the championship, he had his leg amputated. He would only live two years more.

"At the end of the day, it's not strictly a sports movie," Schiff said, "It's a story about love and the human spirit. Freddie Steinmark is an incredible example of someone who had to reach deep into his heart and soul. The way he approached his life is such an example. It's so powerful."

Steinmark is played by up-and-coming actor Finn Wittrock, who recently starred alongside Oscar-winner Russell Crowe in Darren Aronofsky's "Noah." He also co-stars in "Unbroken," directed by Angelina Jolie and due for release this Christmas.

It's an impressive crew all topped off with a screenplay and direction from Angelo Pizzo, who also wrote sports classics "Hoosiers."

Famed quarterback James Street, who died in September 2013, will be played by his son, Justin Street.

Street's casting adds to the realism of the movie, something producers promised they would honor.

"There's so much texture and richness in this," executive producer Bud Bingham told USA Today. "This will not be 'based on a true story' – this will be a true story. That's important to us."

Independently financed, the film has no distributor yet and has no release date listed. However, Schiff says they are confident Hollywood will back them once they see the completed work.

"We would rather bet on ourselves, bet on our story and make a great movie and hopefully be in the enviable position of having distributors vying for our movie," Schiff said.

Filming continued Thursday in Manor, Texas, which is doubling as Steinmark's Colorado hometown. Next week the crew will be at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas before heading to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio and finally back to Austin to complete by mid-July.